Congresswoman Preps Audiences for A PIECE OF MY HEART at Annie Russell Theatre
by BWW News Desk - January 25, 2017 U.S. Congresswoman Stephanie Murphy represents Florida's 7th district as the first Vietnamese-American woman to serve in the United States Congress. She will present 'Vietnam in Context' - in anticipation of Annie Russell Theatre's upcoming production of A Piece of My Heart - on Sunday, January 29 a... 
Pear Theatre presents COWBOY VS. SAMURAI
by A.A. Cristi - December 01, 2017 March brings Michael Golamco's Cowboy vs. Samurai, a romantic comedy loosely based on Cyrano de Bergerac, to the Pear Theatre (directed by Jeffrey Lo). Travis Park is a high school English teacher and the only Korean American man living in a dusty cowboy town known as Breakneck, Wyoming.... 
BET Registers for Another Semester of Hit Series THE QUAD, Returning 1/23
by Caryn Robbins - December 21, 2017 BET Networks announces Season 2 of hit series THE QUAD, starring Tony Award winners Anika Noni Rose and Ruben Santiago-Hudson. Premiering Tuesday, January 23, 2018 at 10 P.M. ET/PT on BET, the new season also sees the return of stars Peyton Alex Smith, Jazz Raycole, Zoe Renee, Jake Allyn, Michelle D...
BWW Review: Gentlemen Prefer Booty in Kirsten Childs' BELLA: AN AMERICAN TALL TALE
by Michael Dale - June 24, 2017 The recent Signature Theatre revival of Suzan Lori-Parks' VENUS, based on the true story of Saartjie Baartman, depicted a 19th Century African woman who was subjected to exploitation because of white people's fascination with her prominent posterior. But the mood is considerably lighter over at Pla...
BWW Interview, Part II: Composer Kevin Puts, Soprano Renee Fleming and Developing LETTERS FROM GEORGIA
by Richard Sasanow - November 11, 2016 Since writing his first opera, SILENT NIGHT--the 2012 Pulitzer Prize winner for Music--with librettist Mark Campbell, composer Kevin Puts he has done two other operas, also with Campbell. This time around, he has a different collaborator: famed American artist Georgia O'Keeffe, whose correspondence ... 
Matrix Announces Exciting 2017-2018 Season
by A.A. Cristi - August 23, 2017 Featuring everything from a politically-charged comedy featuring a Republican senator running for re-election, to an African American woman who meets a tragic fate in 1940s Georgia, Matrix Theatre Company offers an exciting array of shows for its 2017-2018 season....
VIDEO: First Look - Renee Elise Goldsberry Stars in HBO's THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS
by Caryn Robbins - March 16, 2017 Oprah Winfrey, Tony Award winner Renée Elise Goldsberry (HAMILTON) and Rose Byrne star in this adaptation of Rebecca Skloot's critically acclaimed, bestselling nonfiction book of the same name.... 
Project1VOICE Celebrates The American Theater Across The Nation
by Stephi Wild - May 04, 2018 Project1VOICE One Play One Day 2018 is set with national staged readings of Pearl Cleage's Flyin' West on Sunday, June 17, and Monday, June 18. Theater companies, museums, colleges and universities around the country unite for this eighth annual theater celebration that revives and re-introduces for... 
TIME FOR ILHAN Will Have Its World Premiere at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival
by Macon Prickett - March 20, 2018 TIME FOR ILHAN will have its world premiere at the forthcoming 2018 TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL (see screening info and details below)....
Westport Country Playhouse Partners with CT Women's Hall of Fame for WOMEN AND WAR
by Julie Musbach - July 05, 2017 Westport Country Playhouse, in conjunction with its July production of "Grounded," about a U.S. Air Force fighter pilot who is grounded by an unexpected pregnancy, has partnered with the Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame (CWHF) for 'Women and War," a multimedia presentation for teen and adult audienc...
HBO's THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS Coming to Blu-ra/DVD 9/5
by Caryn Robbins - June 16, 2017 Led by Oscar® nominee and TV icon Oprah Winfrey and Emmy® nominee Rose Byrne, the “Intriguing and thought provoking” (The New York Times) HBO® Film, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, is available to own on Blu-RayTM and DVD September 5, 2017....
VIDEO: Rewind! Renee Elise Goldsberry Explains Why She Almost Skipped HAMILTON Audition
by Caryn Robbins - April 18, 2017 Tony Award winner Renee Elise Goldsberry stopped by today's LIVE WITH KELLY to chat about her starring role in Broadway's HAMILTON and explain why she almost didn't audition for the musical.... 
Paramount Network Officially Debuts with Live LIP SYNC BATTLE Episode, 1/18
by Caryn Robbins - September 25, 2017 Paramount Network has set a date for its debut. The network will officially debut on Thursday, January 18 at 9:00pm ET/PT with a LIVE one-hour episode of 'Lip Sync Battle' emanating from the Paramount lot in Hollywood. Details on this star-studded event will be announced in the coming weeks.... 
New Scripted Dramedy AMERICAN WOMAN Premieres on Paramount Network, 6/7
by Caryn Robbins - January 16, 2018 AMERICAN WOMAN, a new half-hour scripted dramedy set amid the sexual revolution and rise of feminism in the 1970s will premiere on Paramount Network on Thursday, June 7 at 10:00pm ET/PT. The 12- episode series from John Wells Productions in association with Warner Horizon Scripted Television stars A... 
SISTAS ON FIRE! Coming to the Duke on 42nd Next Month
by BWW News Desk - September 28, 2017 Sistas on Fire! A Newsical by Marcia McNair and Anissa D. Moore, a musical revue that examines pressing social issues from an African-American female perspective, is coming to the Duke on 42nd Street, Saturday, October 7th, 2017 at 7 PM EST.... 
Daydream Theatre Company Presents the World Premiere of THE INSIDE OF HIS SEVERED HEAD
by Stephi Wild - April 16, 2018 Daydream Theatre Company is proud to announce the world premiere of the new musical 'The Inside Of His Severed Head, Book by Lenny Schwartz and Music and Lyrics by Duncan Pflaster. The play will be directed by Lenny Schwartz with Musical Direction by Zachary Smallwood with choreography by Chelsea Co... 
SISTAS ON FIRE to Light Up the Stage at New York New Works Theatre Festival
by BWW News Desk - October 02, 2017 The personal becomes the political when four passionately-opinionated African American women speak their minds on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Black Lives Matter, missing women and girls, racial stratification on Long Island, sexual exploitation, black-on-black crime, and male/female relation...
Book Now For Classic Spring's Oscar Wilde Season In The West End
by Marianka Swain - July 06, 2017 Classic Spring's Oscar Wilde Season at Vaudeville Theatre in London's West End begins this autumn with A Woman of No Importance and Lady Windermere's Fan. Book tickets here from 25!... 
VIDEO: Margot Robbie and Allison Janney Led I, TONYA Releases Teaser Trailer
by Emily Bruno - October 19, 2017 Margot Robbie took the world by storm when a photo of her looking as a dead ringer for figure skater Tonya Harding emerged from the set of the dark comedy I, TONYA. Now, audiences are getting more of a taste of the movie with a teaser trailer....
STAGE TUBE: HBO Releases Trailer of THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS Starring Winfrey, Goldsberry, and Byrne
by Julie Musbach - February 18, 2017 Oprah Winfrey, Renee Elise Goldsberry, and Rose Byrne star in this adaptation of Rebecca Skloot's critically acclaimed, bestselling nonfiction book of the same name. The film tells the story of Henrietta Lacks, an African-American woman whose cells were used to create the first immortal human cell l... 
Tickets on Sale Now for SISTAS ON FIRE
by BWW News Desk - July 19, 2017 The personal becomes the political when four passionately-opinionated African American women speak their minds on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Black Lives Matter, missing women and girls, racial stratification on Long Island, sexual exploitation, black-on-black crime, and male/female relation...
SISTAS ON FIRE to Light Up the Stage at New York New Works Theatre Festival
by BWW News Desk - October 07, 2017 The personal becomes the political when four passionately-opinionated African American women speak their minds on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Black Lives Matter, missing women and girls, racial stratification on Long Island, sexual exploitation, black-on-black crime, and male/female relation...
2016 Olympians Highlight NBC's Live Coverage of PHILLIPS 66 USA Swimming Championships
by Caryn Robbins - June 27, 2017 NBC Sports Group presents coverage of the Phillips 66 USA Swimming National Championships this week, beginning tonight, Tuesday, June 27, live at 7 p.m. ET on NBCSN. Coverage, part of the Team USA Summer Champions Series presented by Comcast, continues throughout the week on NBCSN and Universal HD, ... 
Canadian Humor Proves Clean is Hilarious in New Xulon Release
by Robert Diamond - January 11, 2018 ... 
VIDEO: First Drafts of Rock Looks at 'American Woman' by The Guess Who, Featuring Kevin Bacon
by Stephi Wild - April 27, 2018 First Drafts of Rock takes a look at the original version of The Guess Who's 'American Woman' featuring The Bacon Brothers. Jimmy Fallon leads this fictional band. Watch the hilarious performance below!... |
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